[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 13:23:38 -0500
You are right, Debby. They do not show up correctly on a BRaille display.
Sue S.
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From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:05 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
Hi, Debby, the fractions you wrote down were heard by my screen reader but
my BrailleNote didn't see them but just as a couple of marks and not in the
way I've seen fractions look in Braille cookbooks from NLS or fractions in a
math book. Regards, Kim.
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:36 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
Hi Jill and everyone!
Whenever I have submitted a cookbook, I have made sure all fractions are
correct. I have wondered how accurate other Bookshare cookbooks were until
joining this list when I have found that many volunteers take care to
correct the scanos, since fractions are usually horrible for OCR to get
right.
The first cookbook I downloaded years ago was "The I Hate to Cook"
cookbook. The fractions were not written as 1/2 and 1/4 but the higher
ASCII characters for those fractions, so, unless I was left' or
right-arrowing over those fractions, Window-Eyes ignored them entirely, so I
hope that people always use the 1/2 and 1/4 form of the fractions so they
are read rather than ignored by synthetic speech.. I suspect those higher
ASCII characters don't show up well on a braille display either. Am I
right? Here they are to test:
¼ ½
Debby
At 09:46 PM 5/6/2010, Jill O'Connell wrote
>I hope you sent your suggestion to the volunteer coordinator where it
>might possibly do some good. It is really disappointing to download a
>recipe book and find it virtually unreadable.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>Melissa Smith
>>To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:03 PM
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
>>
>>If only the outsourcers did as fine a job as many of the scanners and
>>proofers on this list. I don't know how many books I've read, that
>>were done by the outsourcers, that were poorly done. I do make quality
>>reports when warranted. Not to mention the fact that, I was told a few
>>months ago by Bookshare staff, that the outsourcers wouldn't be
>>working on any more cookbooks.
>>
>>
>>Melissa Smith
>>On 5/6/2010 5:31 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
>>>One idea is to let the more complicated books be handled by
>>>staff/outsourcers.
>>>
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